Shining Soul II Passwords and Glitches (GameBoy Advance)

Shining Soul II is a role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance. It was developed by Sega and published by them in 2003 (Japan), Atlus (2004, America) and THQ (2004, Europe), as the sequel to Shining Soul and part of the Shining series. It features eight playable characters and several dungeons to explore. The game supports multiplayer via link cable as well as single player. Shining Soul II is a dungeon crawling hack and slash and plays similarly to other notable titles Diablo and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.

The game features eight character classes which can be improved up to level 200. Each is customizable with a variety of weapons, spells, support abilities and attributes. Different classes that can use the same weapons attack differently with them. For example, the Warrior's spear attack is a thrust, while the Archer throws his spear over a distance. Each usable spell in the game has its own spellbook and only classes with that spell on their skills list can use the spellbook to cast the spell.

Passwords

Name Codes
Enter one of the below as your character's name to start with a bonus. (These only work in the USA-version)

Yoshi - dex +5

Genomes - Genome Ring

Nindri - Have a Dream Hat in your inventory

Vjum - Have an Atlus Ring in your inventory

Dengeki - int +5 RTH +30

VJxSS - Power Gloves

Montaka - RDK +30

Iyoku - RFR +30

Mizupin - RIC +30

Saophen - RLT +30

Hachi - RPO +30

Ninky - str +5

Taicho - VIT +5

Unlockables

Advanced Mode
Advanced Mode - Complete the game once with any character. Select the Completed Character to open up Advanced Mode.

Secret Character
Secret Character - Complete the game once with any character. The next time you create a new file, a new Black Mage character will be selectable.

Easter Eggs

SEGA message balloon
Sacrifice the S, E, G, and A letters in the Temple of Light to get the SEGA message balloon.

Glitches

Duping any item
Step 1 - Drop anything you want to dupe on the bed where you start off

Step 2 - Save, and load the file

Step 3 - Pick up all the items that were on the floor at the bed

Step 4 - Defeat Chaos and watch credits (long part here)

Step 5 - Load file again, you should have all items in your inventory + the same items on the floor

Hold more than 100K gold in each bag
You should have a lot of gold for this one, check the glitch for multiplying gold.

When you die, you will unequip an armor, drop it, and drop HALF of your gold in 1 Pile. So, if you have let's say, 500k with you, if you die, that will turn into 250k in 1 Bag!! What's the advantage of this you say? Well, if you can hold more than 100k in each bag, that increases your total you can hold in your bank! The max in 1 gold pile is 1.25 million, which is made when you have 25 bags of 100k in your inventory when you die. This increases your total from 7.5 million (100,000 per bag * 15 spaces in bank * 5 spaces of 15) in the bank to 93.75 million (1,250,000 per bag * 15 bank spaces * 5 screens)

These results are only with 100k of gold. If you want a HUGE PILE of gold, use a few piles of 1.25 mill, so you could make a pile of 15.625 million gold. Then 195.3125 million and so on.
READ THE CAUTIONS.

*CAUTION!!!
-Having more than 1 million in a bag may be dangerous, I am not responsible for erased characters or such. I'm not sure if it could happen, but I'm not gonna test it, it's up to you. If you only have 1999998 in your inventory when you die, you will get a pile of 999,999 gold. That should be safe.

-I'm not sure what happens if you manage to get more than 9,999,999 in the bank, please be careful.

Multiply money
First, have over 100,000 gold in your bank and inventory combined.

Next, put any amount of money into your inventory.

Finally, grab the money in the bank and drop it on the money in your inventory. Make sure the total will exceed 100,000.

When you do this, the bag that had the lowest amount of money will be duplicated. A new bag of money will appear with that amount in it, the bag that was originally in your inventory will have 100,000 gold in it and the money from your bank will still be in your bank.

This will not work if there is a money bag in your first two item slots. Also, whatever is in those slots will be replaced with the money.

Throw Duplication
Warning: This trick requires some pretty precise timing and lots of practice.

1.) Go to your items menu and place any item into an item slot.

2.) Exit the menu, then hold B to charge up the throw meter for that item.

3.) Press R to bring up the item slots.

4.) Press R again to switch items and let go of B to throw the item at the same time.

If done correctly, you will throw the selected item forward, as well as retaining one in your item slot. This trick is great for duplicating Yogurt Dolls and the stat-boosting items (Power Wine, Quick Chicken, Bright Honey, Energy Bread).

Here's the ending cutscene of this great GBA RPG: